Proverb - Applications of Proverbs

Applications of Proverbs

There is a growing interest in deliberately using proverbs to achieve goals, usually to support and promote changes in society. On the negative side, this was deliberately done by the Nazis On the more positive side, proverbs have also been used for positive purposes. For example, proverbs have been used for teaching foreign languages at various levels., In addition, proverbs have been used for public health promotion, such as promoting breast feeding with a shawl bearing a Swahili proverb “Mother’s milk is sweet”, also for helping people manage diabetes, for to combat prostitution, and for community development The most active field deliberately using proverbs is Christian ministry, where Joseph G. Healey and others have deliberately worked to catalyze the collection of proverbs from smaller languages and the application of them in a wide variety of church-related ministries, resulting in publications of collections and applications,. This attention to proverbs by those in Christian ministries is not new, many pioneering proverb collections having been collected and published by Christian workers. U.S. Navy Captain Edward Zellem pioneered the use of Afghan proverbs as a positive relationship-building tool during the war in Afghanistan, and in 2012 he published two bilingual collections of Afghan proverbs in Dari and English.